| craw | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: crop |
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| crawdad | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| crawdaddy | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
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| crawfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish |
| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
| crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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| (noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
| (noun) a very slow movement | - |
| (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: creep |
| (verb) swim by doing the crawl | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| (verb) be full of | - |
| (verb) feel as if crawling with insects | - |
| crawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: creeper |
| crawling | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping |
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| crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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| crayer | (noun) a two- or three-masted sailing vessel formerly used for transporting cargo in the Baltic Sea. | - |
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| crayfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish |
| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse |
| (noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
| crayon | (noun) writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing | Synonyms: wax crayon |
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| (verb) write, draw, or trace with a crayon | - |
| craze | (noun) a fine crack in a glaze or other surface | - |
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| (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: cult, fad, furor, furore, rage |
| (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria |
| (verb) develop a fine network of cracks | - |
| (verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: madden |
| crazed | (adjective) driven insane | Synonyms: deranged, half-crazed |
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| crazily | (adverb) in an insane manner | Synonyms: dementedly, insanely, madly |
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| craziness | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: folly, foolishness, madness |
| (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: daftness, flakiness |
| crazy | (adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: dotty, gaga, wild |
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| (adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement | - |
| (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: half-baked, screwball, softheaded |
| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) bizarre or fantastic | - |
| (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: looney, loony, nutcase, weirdo |
| crazyweed | (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, locoweed |
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| creak | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creaking |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| creakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakingly, screakily |
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| creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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| creakingly | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, screakily |
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| creaky | (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: screaky |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| cream | (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, ointment |
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| (noun) the part of milk containing the butterfat | - |
| (noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: pick |
| (verb) add cream to one's coffee, for example | - |
| (verb) make creamy by beating | - |
| (verb) remove from the surface | Synonyms: cream off, skim, skim off |
| (verb) put on cream, as on one's face or body | - |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, drub, lick, thrash |
| creamcups | (noun) California plant with small pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Platystemon californicus |
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| creamer | (noun) a small pitcher for serving cream | Synonyms: cream pitcher |
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| creamery | (noun) a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold | - |
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| creaminess | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: soupiness |
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| creampie | (noun) Ejaculate inside a vagina or anus | - |
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| (verb) The act of ejaculating inside another person | - |
| creamy | (adjective) of the color of cream | - |
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| (adjective) thick like cream | - |
| crease | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: creese, kris |
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| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crimp, flexure, fold, plication |
| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: furrow, wrinkle |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: graze, rake |
| creaseless | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: uncreased |
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| creaseproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, wrinkle-resistant, wrinkleproof |
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| creashak | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| create | (verb) make or cause to be or to become | Synonyms: make |
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| (verb) pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity | - |
| (verb) bring into existence | - |
| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: make, produce |
| (verb) create by artistic means | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) invest with a new title, office, or rank | - |
| creatin | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatine |
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| creatine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatin |
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| creation | (noun) the human act of creating | Synonyms: creative activity |
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| (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
| (noun) an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone | - |
| (noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: conception |
| (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, existence, macrocosm, universe, world |
| creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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| creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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| (adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
| creatively | (adverb) in a creative manner | - |
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| creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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| creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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| creator | (noun) a person who grows or makes or invents things | - |
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| creature | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna |
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| (noun) a living being | Synonyms: wight |
| (noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: puppet, tool |
| creche | (noun) a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for | Synonyms: foundling hospital |
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| (noun) a representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem | - |
| cred | (noun) credibility among young fashionable urban individuals | Synonyms: street cred, street credibility |
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| credal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: creedal |
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| credence | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credenza |
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| (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: acceptance |
| credendum | (noun) (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | Synonyms: article of faith |
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| credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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| credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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| credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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| credenza | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credence |
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| credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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| credible | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: believable |
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| (adjective) appearing to merit belief or acceptance | - |
| (adjective) (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous | - |
| credibleness | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibility |
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| credibly | (adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: believably, plausibly, probably |
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| credit | (noun) recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours | Synonyms: course credit |
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| (noun) used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise | - |
| (noun) an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments | Synonyms: credit rating |
| (noun) approval | Synonyms: recognition |
| (noun) an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work | - |
| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services | Synonyms: deferred payment |
| (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items | Synonyms: credit entry |
| (noun) money available for a client to borrow | - |
| (verb) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of | - |
| (verb) give someone credit for something | - |
| (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: accredit |
| (verb) enter as credit | - |
| creditable | (adjective) worthy of often limited commendation | - |
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| creditably | (adverb) to a tolerably worthy extent | Synonyms: respectably |
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| credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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| creditor | (noun) a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists | - |
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| credits | (noun) a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) | - |
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| creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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| creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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| credo | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: creed |
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| credulity | (noun) tendency to believe readily | - |
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| credulous | (adjective) disposed to believe on little evidence | - |
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| (adjective) showing a lack of judgment or experience | - |
| credulously | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: believingly |
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| credulousness | (noun) tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived | Synonyms: gullibility |
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| creed | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: credo |
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| (noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, gospel, religious doctrine |
| creedal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: credal |
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| creek | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: brook |
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| creel | (noun) a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish | - |
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| creep | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping |
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| (noun) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot | - |
| (noun) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation | - |
| (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
| (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: crawl |
| (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: mouse, pussyfoot, sneak |
| (verb) grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| creeper | (noun) any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | Synonyms: tree creeper |
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| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: crawler |
| (noun) any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping | - |
| creepiness | (noun) an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin | - |
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| creeping | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creep |
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| creeps | (noun) a feeling of fear and revulsion | - |
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| (noun) a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait | - |
| creepy | (adjective) causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin | Synonyms: creepy-crawly |
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| (adjective) annoying and unpleasant | - |
| creese | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: crease, kris |
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| cremains | (noun) the remains of a dead body after cremation | - |
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| cremate | (verb) reduce to ashes | - |
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| cremation | (noun) the incineration of a dead body | - |
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| crematorium | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematory |
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| (noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematory |
| crematory | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematorium |
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| (noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematorium |
| crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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| crenated | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, scalloped |
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| crenation | (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenature, crenel, crenelle, scallop |
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| crenature | (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenel, crenelle, scallop |
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| crenel | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenelle |
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| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenelle, scallop |
| (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenelate, crenellate |
| crenelate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenellate |
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| crenelated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled |
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| crenelation | (noun) the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | Synonyms: crenellation |
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| (noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: battlement, crenellation |
| crenellate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenelate |
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| crenellation | (noun) the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | Synonyms: crenelation |
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| (noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: battlement, crenelation |
| crenelle | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenel |
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| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, scallop |
| crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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| crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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| creole | (noun) a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages | - |
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